The Woodlawn Cemetery
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 135670057
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bronx, New York, USA
- Phone
- (718) 920-0500
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,098,711
- Expenses
- $18,129,859
- Assets
- $324,022,374
- Liabilities
- $8,944,654
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER JEANNOPOULOS (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- LISA ACKERMAN SR ADVISOR TO (CEO/SECRETARY AS OF SEPT. 2025)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER JEANNOPOULOS (PRESIDENT/CEO): $363,400 total reported compensation
- MARYLOU MORGAN (FAMILY SERVICE COUNSELOR): $282,699 total reported compensation
- CARMEN GRACE PEREZ (FAMILY SERVICE COUNSELOR): $281,001 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Woodlawn fosters a connection between the past and the present by creating educational content and learning opportunities for people of all ages.
What it reported doing in 2025
Woodlawn cemetery, a national historic landmark and 400 acre garden cemetery, provides burial, entombment, cremation, and memorialization services to more than 3,000 families annually. Woodlawn preserves and cares for more than 310,000 individuals memorialized on its grounds, including over 1,300 private mausoleums, community mausoleums, historic monuments, and the woolworth chapel. As a level ii arboretum with more than 6,500 cataloged trees, woodlawn maintains its landscape, architecture, and cultural resources for lot owners, families, visitors, and future generations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.87; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $363K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.5M reported
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.